GER 312 - Coming of Age in German Culture (course in German literature and culture)

GER 410E - Berlin in Film and Literature (advanced seminar for students in German)

GER 410F - Culture in Weimar Germany (advanced seminar for students in German)

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

Best Article Prize of the German Studies Association and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for “Weimar Film as Fashion Show: Konfektionskomödien or Fashion Farces from Lubitsch to the End of the Silent Era,” German Studies Review, 30.2. (May 2007) 288-310

“Vicarious Consumption: Fashion and Fashion Media in Germany during the War Years 1939-1943,”The Consumer on the Home Front:Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective, ed. Felix Römer, Jan Logermann, and Hartmut Berghoff (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) 199-221.

“Fashion Amidst the Ruins: Revisiting the Early Rubble Films And the Heavens Above (1947) and The Murderers are Among Us (1946),” German Studies Review, 37:1 (March 2014) 61-85.

“Romantic Encounters on a Street Corner: Sommer vorm Balkon and the Return of the Berlin Film,” in TRANSIT: A Journal of Travel, Migration and Multiculturalism (http://german.berkeley.edu/transit/). Spring 2010.

“Elegance and Spectacle in Berlin: The Gerson Fashion Store and the Rise of the Modern Fashion Show in the Early Twentieth Century,” The Places and Spaces of Fashion: 1800-2007, ed. John Potvin (New York: Routledge, 2009) 121-138.

“Weimar Film as Fashion Show: Konfektionskomödien or Fashion Farces from Lubitsch to the End of the Silent Era,” German Studies Review, 30.2. (May 2007) 288-310.

“From West-German Väterliteratur to Post-Wall Enkelliteratur: The End of the Generation Conflict in Marcel Beyer’s Spione and Tanja Dückers’ Himmelskörper,” Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies, 43:2 (May 2007): 149-162.